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Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American World War II propaganda film about the war in the Pacific directed by Frank Capra, with additional direction by experimental documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens.
Subscribe to get all the latest content https://bit.ly/3AZ4jkQIn this 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the U.S. War Department, the history of Japan is...
- 63 min
- 4.2K
- The Film Detective
A skillful, essentially truthful WW2 propaganda piece on Imperial Japan that exaggerated some issues by misquotes and by quoting the so-called "Tanaka Memorial" which was a prewar hoax. It was produced too late in the war to receive wide distribution.
- 63 min
- 10.7K
- picfixer
Know Your Enemy - Japan: Directed by Frank Capra, Joris Ivens. With John Beal, Howard Duff, Walter Huston, Knox Manning. A comprehensive look at the war in the Pacific during World War II. Shot as a propaganda film by acclaimed Hollywood director Frank Capra.
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- Documentary, History, War
- Frank Capra, Joris Ivens
- 1945-08-09
Mar 18, 2017 · The war on the Pacific against the Empire of Japan culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States Army Air Forces, accompanied by the Soviet invasion of...
- 60 min
- 1.2M
- The Best Film Archives
Shows the long history of Japanese expansion and military campaigns. Details how Japan is exploiting the natural resources of other Asian nations. This film represents the orientalist and racist opinions directed towards the Japanese people in World War II.
A WWII U.S. War Department orientation film using racist, anti-Japanese propaganda techniques. The film gives a brief history of Japan, and an overview of Japanese social, military, and political culture, with the ultimate goal of explaining that the whole Japanese culture is designed to create soldiers bent on world domination.
